6.10.2006

too much lead in paint, scraping "maid's room" before parents come stay for sister's wedding

realize that in Pynchon's postmodern novel description -- the plaster and paint would come off the wall in the progressively more progressive voting districts in this neighborhood during the time period of the stripped wallpaper, i.e., the 20s, from the (early!) ELIMINATION OF SEGREGATION AT swimming and beaches --the 20s -- much later some places in the midwest- to the new deal -- with the tough, intractable districts remaining --